What do the following lines from the first chapter mean ?
1)"...and I guess the laws of nature are not going to suspended for the British aristrocracy"- said by Mr.Otis
2)"...emigration is the only thing for England."
1) Otis was dismissing the idea that there could be any ghost because however influential the British aristocracy was, the laws of nature could not be suspended for their benefit.
2) The Americans were a pioneering lot, moving out into different parts of the world much in the manner of old world explorers, for trade, commerce or just to buy up old European property as assets. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister had bought Canterville Chase, in spite of the fact that it was reputed to be haunted because as he says, he came from a modern country which had everything money could buy, even the old glamour of aristocracy. Spry young fellows from America were painting thee Old World red and carrying off the best actors and prima-donnas of Europe, it was almost like a cultural conquest of Europe by the Americans. The only way the British could keep up would be to emigrate because the colonial enterprise was on its way out.
2) The Americans were a pioneering lot, moving out into different parts of the world much in the manner of old world explorers, for trade, commerce or just to buy up old European property as assets. Hiram B. Otis, the American Minister had bought Canterville Chase, in spite of the fact that it was reputed to be haunted because as he says, he came from a modern country which had everything money could buy, even the old glamour of aristocracy. Spry young fellows from America were painting thee Old World red and carrying off the best actors and prima-donnas of Europe, it was almost like a cultural conquest of Europe by the Americans. The only way the British could keep up would be to emigrate because the colonial enterprise was on its way out.